Francois Murphy / Reuters:
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or 9.1M people — A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind — The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led to the arrest of 146 people …
Toby Sterling / Reuters:
Dutch e-commerce company Prosus to sell its Russian classifieds business Avito to Kismet Capital for ~$2.46B; Avito was valued at ~$6B before Russia’s invasion — Prosus (PRX.AS), the Dutch-based technology investor, said on Friday it has agreed to sell its Russian online marketplace Avito …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE — When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.
CNBC:
Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited — – The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney …
Bloomberg:
Sources: FTX’s derivatives exchange LedgerX is for sale, attracting interest from Blockchain.com, Gemini, and others; Nov. 17 filing: LedgerX had ~$303M in cash — LedgerX, one of the few solvent pieces of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crumbled FTX empire, is for sale and attracting interest …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Ofcom research: one-third of UK children between 8 and 17 with social media profiles use falsified adult ages, mainly by signing up with a fake date of birth — Companies like Instagram are getting been heavily fined (and dragged through the publicity coals) over how they have mishandled children’s privacy on their platforms.
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